NiPS Laboratory has a long collaboration record with SPAWAR on sensor devices and nonlinear stochastic dynamics. During the meeting were presented recent development on nonlinear energy harvesting for sensing applications at micro and nano scales. These results will be most probably presented at the next international conference to be held in Gubbio, Italy, on July 3-7 2017.

Igor Neri (right in the picture) and Luca Gammaitoni (left in the picture) represented NiPS at the kick off meeting of the new European project OPRECOMP.

OPRECOM is is a 4-year research project co-funded under the EU 7th Framework Horizon 2020 – Re Program Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Proactive Initiative: emerging themes and communities. FET aims to go beyond the conventional boundaries of ICT and ventures into uncharted areas, often inspired by and in close collaboration with other scientific disciplines.

OPRECOMP aims to build an innovative, reliable foundation for computing based on transprecision analytics.

For more info please visit the OPRECOMP web site: http://oprecomp.wpengine.com

The Micro Energy 2017 conference will be held in Gubbio (IT), July 3rd to July 7th, organized by the Noise in Physical Systems (NiPS) Laboratory of the University of Perugia, with the technical sponsorship of the EEE IMS Italy Chapter.

The conference is aimed at bringing together international scientists from academia, research centres and industry to discuss recent development in the topic of micro energy and its use for powering sensing and communicating devices.

Breaking the energy efficiency limit for conventional logic gates.
HiPEACINFO, the newsletter from the High Performance Computing community presents the recent experiment made at NiPS Lavoratory.
To know more, read the article here.
Original paper on Nature Communications: Sub-kBT micro-electromechanical irreversible logic gate

Miquel López-Suárez, from NiPS, received his PhD special prize award for his theses "Non-linear Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Energy Harvesting".

The PhD special prizes confer value to theses which have received the qualification of excellence "Cum Laude" and which, having been proposed by the Admissions Committee of each academic programme, stand out for their contribution and advance in the different areas of that University.

The cerimony was held at the Hotel Campusof the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on November the 18th of 2016.